Public Lecture—Smashing Protons: First Physics at the LHC

[happinesson]

never ending collision of protons! i have watched a hundred of videos about smashing of protons..when are you going to stop?

[SLAC]

@happinesson perhaps when it stops being scientifically useful :)

[boodistGeek]

This guy talks a lot, but manages to say little. Dude. Get to the point. Stop trying to sound so clever. Speakers should inform their audience, not drone on about peripheral material.

[kurtilein3]

a really great talk :)

good introduction, and gives some insight on what they are doing at the LHC right now

[55t1]

I have heard and read articles, that say that there is a competing theory to the Higgs mechanism called Top quark condensate. The top/anti-top pair is responsible for the masses of the observed particles.

[kurtilein3]

@55t1

until there is solid experimental data, there always tend to be several theories competing. finding a new particle and measuring its properties will kill most of these conpeting theories, and maybe one turns out to potentially be right. Basically, the theoretical physicists are working ahead of the experimentalists.